FYI:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/101006_rpts.html
One tornado based on damage report and impressive hail.
Current cut-off low situation in Arizona/Utah is an interesting case in light of Neil Lareau's climatology of synoptic-scale motion (above).
Incredible that they verified, not because of the weather, but because of the low population density. Kudos to SPC.
ReplyDeleteJohn & Neil - Have you ever plotted the mean vertical motion by month over the Intermountain West? I'm wondering if that shows the same bimodal seasonality as the Intermountain cyclone stats.
ReplyDeleteJim, I have not done so in some sort of regionally averaged sense, but I have done it for each grid point for each month. It does show some weak bimodality if I recall, but is strongly dominated by the spring maximum in ascent. I only calculate these stats through april, so I am not sure how May compares, which I seem to recall was the cyclone peak that you Matt document.
ReplyDeleteIf you get motivated, it might be interesting to plot the monthly-mean VV for the Intermountain region that Matt and I investigated. I can send you a copy of the paper off line if you'd like.
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